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We still make love to organs and not people that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
Actor
Broadcaster
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Feminist
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Melbourne
Australia
Rose Blight
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